The HRD ministry has convened a meeting of all MPs on November 10 to elicit their opinions and suggestions on formulating the National Education Policy, as the subject is a national agenda and not a political one, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said here today.

A 30-year-old employee of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board was electrocuted while two others sustained burn injuries, when they were carrying out maintenance work at Thudiyalur sub-station, in the outskirts today, police said.

The probe into the murder of a Hindu outfit activist in Coimbatore was on Wednesday transferred to CB-CID police even as several BJP workers and leaders were detained here for trying to stage a protest over the killing.

Claiming a "broad consensus" on the long pending GST Bill, Union Minister M Venkiah Naidu on Sunday said the Centre was "very serious" about its passage in the monsoon session of parliament, but virtually rejected Congress' demand for a tax rate cap terming it "not feasible and advisable".

To celebrate the swearing-in of AIADMK Supremo Jayalalithaa as Chief Minister for the sixth time, an auto driver in Coimbatore on Monday offered his service by taking passengers for one rupee to any place in the city.

Election department and police officials today raided the house of a local DMK leader at nearby Annur following information that large amount of unaccounted money was allegedly kept there, police said.

Mocking DMK Chief M Karunanidhi for wooing the youth to make him Chief Minister again at the age of 92, CPI leader D Pandian today alleged that his sole aim was to see that the "dynastic rule" continues.